The Cut, 2024. Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Orlando Bloom, Catriona Balfe, John Turturro, Clair Dunne, Gary Beadle SYNOPSIS: A retired boxer is given the chance of a title fight, but only if he can make the required weight. The tension of gearing up for a big fight is given extra intensity in this nerve […]
Movie Review – The Cut (2025)
The Cut, 2025. Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe, John Turturro, Eric D. Smith, Clare Dunne, Ed Kear, Oliver Trevena, and Andonis Anthony. SYNOPSIS: A retired boxer returns to the ring for one last shot at the title but only if he can make the weight. Holed up in a room in […]
Orlando Bloom pushes himself to the limit in trailer for boxing drama The Cut
Altitude Films has released a trailer and images for director Sean Ellis’ (Anthropoid) psychological sports drama The Cut. Orlando Bloom dusts off his gloves some 21 years after The Calcium Kid to star as a former boxing champion who finds his reality unravelling as he pushes himself through an intensive program while training for his […]
Exclusive interview with Sean Ellis, director of Anthropoid
Anthropoid, the true story of the mission to assassinate Hitler’s third in command, Reinhard Heydrich, arrives in cinemas this week [read our review here]. Freda Cooper talked to its director, Sean Ellis, about the film and how it sheds light on a lesser known corner of World War II history. On the 27th of May […]
Orlando Bloom to get back in the ring for boxing thriller The Cut
Almost twenty years on from his title role in The Calcium Kid, Orlando Bloom looks set to dust off the gloves and get back in the ring for the lead role in the psychological thriller The Cut. Directed by Sean Ellis (Anthropoid, Metro Manila) from a script by Justin Bull (Little Rituals), the film will […]
Movie Review – Eight for Silver (2021)
Eight for Silver, 2021. Written and directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, and Áine Rose Daly. SYNOPSIS: In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger – and exorcise some of his own demons […]
Movie Review – The Cursed (2022)
The Cursed, 2022. Written and Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Kelly Reilly, Boyd Holbrook, Alistair Petrie, Uhm Ji-won, Roxane Duran, Nigel Betts, Stuart Bowman, Gary Oliver, Richard Cunningham, Simon Kunz, Áine Rose Daly, Amelia Crouch, Tom Sweet, Max Mackintosh, Tommy Rodger, Sean Mahon, Mish Boyko, Paul Bandey, Alun Raglan, Oisín Stack, Annabel Mullion, Jicey Carina, […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Cursed
The Cursed, 2021. Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, and Áine Rose Daly. SYNOPSIS: In the French countryside during the 1800s, John McBride, a pathologist tasked with determining whether the body of a young boy found in the works was the work of man or beast. After the […]
Period werewolf horror The Cursed gets a trailer, poster and images
Ahead of its release this February, a trailer, poster and images have been released for writer-director Sean Ellis’ upcoming horror The Cursed. Previously titled Eight for Silver, the film follows pathologist John McBride (Boyd Holbrook) as he investigates what was believed to be an attack by a wild animal in a remote country village, only […]
Movie Review – Anthropoid (2016)
Anthropoid, 2016. Directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerova and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: A small group of resistance fighters undertake a mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, head of security in Czechoslovakia and number three in Hitler’s chain of command. Based on true events from World War II. The […]
